Dan Onuorah Ibekwe, // ⓘ was a Nigerian Jurist, former President of the Nigerian courts of appeals and Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
[1][2] He was succeeded by Justice Nasir Mamman following his demise in 1978.
He started practicing law in the private firm of John Idowu Conrad Taylor but later moved to Aba in 1954.
Between 1965 and 1966, he was a senator and Minister in Charge of Commonwealth Relations, Ministry of External Affairs.
[5] Ibekwe was made a Supreme Court judge in 1972 and was at the court until 1975 when he was appointed Attorney General of the Federation by the then Head of State, Late General Murtala Muhammed.